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This preview is downloaded from www.sis.se. Buy the entire standard via https://www.sis.se/std-907309 INTERNATIONAL ISO STANDARD 3864-3 First edition 2006-04-15 Graphical symbols — Safety colours and safety signs — Part 3: Design principles for graphical symbols for use in safety signs Symboles graphiques — Couleurs de sécurité et signaux de sécurité — Partie 3: Principes de conception des symboles graphiques utilisés dans les signaux de sécurité Reference number ISO 3864-3:2006(E) © ISO 2006 This preview is downloaded from www.sis.se. Buy the entire standard via https://www.sis.se/std-907309 ISO 3864-3:2006(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. 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Buy the entire standard via https://www.sis.se/std-907309 ISO 3864-3:2006(E) Contents Page Foreword............................................................................................................................................................ iv Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................ v 1 Scope ..................................................................................................................................................... 1 2 Normative references ........................................................................................................................... 1 3 Terms and definitions........................................................................................................................... 1 4 Designing graphical symbols for use in safety signs....................................................................... 2 5 Review of existing standards .............................................................................................................. 2 6 Assignment of meaning, function and image content to the safety sign ....................................... 2 7 Design criteria ....................................................................................................................................... 3 7.1 Geometric shapes and colours of safety signs................................................................................. 3 7.2 Size and position of the graphical symbol......................................................................................... 3 7.3 Layout of templates .............................................................................................................................. 6 7.4 Exclusion zone...................................................................................................................................... 7 7.5 Line width ............................................................................................................................................ 10 7.6 Critical detail ....................................................................................................................................... 10 7.7 Consistency within a family of graphical symbols ......................................................................... 11 7.8 Determinants ....................................................................................................................................... 12 7.9 Combination of graphical symbols or graphical symbol elements............................................... 14 7.10 Use of arrows in safety symbols....................................................................................................... 14 7.11 Characters ........................................................................................................................................... 15 Annex A (informative) Additional design guidelines .................................................................................... 16 Bibliography ..................................................................................................................................................... 25 © ISO 2006 – All rights reserved iii This preview is downloaded from www.sis.se. Buy the entire standard via https://www.sis.se/std-907309 ISO 3864-3:2006(E) Foreword ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies (ISO member bodies). The work of preparing International Standards is normally carried out through ISO technical committees. Each member body interested in a subject for which a technical committee has been established has the right to be represented on that committee. International organizations, governmental and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO, also take part in the work. ISO collaborates closely with the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) on all matters of electrotechnical standardization. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2. The main task of technical committees is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the technical committees are circulated to the member bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the member bodies casting a vote. Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO 3864-3 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 145, Graphical symbols, Subcommittee SC 2, Safety identification, signs, shapes, symbols and colours. ISO 3864 consists of the following parts, under the general title Graphical symbols — Safety colours and safety signs: ⎯ Part 1: Design principles for safety signs in workplaces and public areas ⎯ Part 2: Design principles for product safety labels ⎯ Part 3: Design principles for graphical symbols for use in safety signs iv © ISO 2006 – All rights reserved This preview is downloaded from www.sis.se. Buy the entire standard via https://www.sis.se/std-907309 ISO 3864-3:2006(E) Introduction Graphical symbols in safety signs are used for a wide range of purposes. There is a need to standardize the principles for creating these graphical symbols to ensure visual clarity, to maintain consistency and thereby to improve recognition and comprehension. The principles set forth in this part of ISO 3864 are the design criteria by which graphical symbols are judged for standardization and publication in ISO 7010 (details of the procedures for the standardization of graphical symbols and safety signs can be found at www.iso.org/tc145). Graphical symbols used in safety signs are not always intuitively understood. Often training needs to take place to inform people about the meaning of the graphical symbol. Such training can take place by including the meaning of the graphical symbol in operation manuals, company bulletins, training program materials, as well as using supplementary text with the safety sign. © ISO 2006 – All rights reserved v This preview is downloaded from www.sis.se. Buy the entire standard via https://www.sis.se/std-907309 This preview is downloaded from www.sis.se. Buy the entire standard via https://www.sis.se/std-907309 INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 3864-3:2006(E) Graphical symbols — Safety colours and safety signs — Part 3: Design principles for graphical symbols for use in safety signs IMPORTANT — The colours represented in the electronic file of this part of ISO 3864 can be neither viewed on screen nor printed as true representations. Although the copies of this part of ISO 3864 printed by ISO have been produced to correspond (with an acceptable tolerance as judged by the naked eye) to the requirements of ISO 3864-1, it is not intended that these printed copies be used for colour matching. Instead consult ISO 3864-1 which provides colorimetric and photometric properties together with, as a guideline, references from colour order systems. 1 Scope This part of ISO 3864 gives principles, criteria and guidance for the design of graphical symbols for use in safety signs as defined in ISO 3864-1, and the safety sign element of product safety labels as defined in ISO 3864-2.